Around Circles (2006) for solo Clarinet

The piece was
commissioned by YOUrope Together Project,
organized by Philharmonie Essen, 2006

Made up of two
contrasting / complementary sections, the work is based on a very simple
musical idea; Trills. While in the first section, there are long-trilled passages
in different registers, in the second section, the trills occur between
vivacious melodic lines.

In that sense the
first section can be understood as a plain background, and the second section
as a curvy, mobile melodic lines on the background, which reminds me Kandinsky’s
Around the Circle, from 1940.